Trump is not successful because he should have known what the stock market was going to do. Liberals can only see what they want. Politics is a religion for them.
This post proves that you're nothing but a life long McDonalds slob who doesn't know the first thing about running a business or even have enough money to even consider having any kind of retirement account or savings or other investments.
I own a small business. It's very small in that it's just myself performing services. Nonetheless the fundamentals are the same. Let me give you a little education that you'll never gain from asking people if they want fries with that.
Let's say that I have some amount of money, $X. I have to make decisions about what I am going to do with that money. Do I want to invest it into marketing so I can reach new clients? Do I want to invest it into materials or other tangible goods that will make it easier to get the work done, thus improving my efficiency? Do I want to hold onto that cash so to sustain the business needs through an expected slow season over the next few months? Do I want to retire some debt? Do I want to save up for some bigger purchases I'd like to make in the near future? Do I want to park that cash in a simple savings account? Do I want to park it in a money market account? Do I want to park it in my investment account?
The point is that when it comes to investing money into a business venture a
fundamental determination that has to be made is whether the investment decision will be
profitable. And being a
profitable investment is not a simple matter of buying a $5 item and selling it for $10. You have to factor in the
alternatives you have sacrificed. Some people run the numbers to the penny based on their educated estimates. Some people have a hidden knack for feeling it out. When dealing with the most complex situations the best people will employ both. It's true that not all things can be known ahead of time. But being able to make a reasonable estimate is one of the essentials of being in business.
So yes, the fact that Trump would have made more money by simply
DOING NOTHING AND NEVER OWNING A BUSINESS is a huge fucking sign that he is a bad business person. Don't sit here and cry "oh how was he supposed to know" because being able to reach the decisions that prove to be correct in the long run is
exactly what being a good business person means. Especially when we're not talking about a decision between investing in either VHS or BETA. We're talking about the decision to
be in business or not be in business, period.
ANYBODY WHO MAKES LESS MONEY BEING IN BUSINESS THAN THEY WOULD HAVE MADE SITTING ON THEIR ASS AND DOING NOTHING IS A BUSINESS FAILURE BY DEFINITION.
As if that changes the fact that he would have made more money by retiring.
